late-1980s

The original Playboy Bunnies were waitresses at the many clubs the company used to run but shut down in the late 1980s.

In the late 1980s, during a visit to Bangladesh, I saw a woman with her baby on her back, breaking bricks with a hammer.

It was the late 1980s and there was more help available for autism sufferers and their families.

In fact, the police department in Madison, Wis. , has used such a program since the late 1980s with considerable effectiveness.

Small- and medium-sized companies were the first, during the late 1980s, to call for more immigrant workers as a way to remain competitive.

Since the late 1980s, such features in magazines and newspapers have tapped into a prurient fascination with wealth.

Investors are abandoning the time-tested 'stocks for the long run' optimism that dominated since the late 1980s.

The name Matchbox is redolent of any childhood from the late 1950s to the early 1980s.

In the late 1970s and 1980s, that might have been true -- but today, it's hard to argue that Apple's expensive products are egalitarian.

Today private-equity types are quick to admit things got out of control, just as in the buy-out booms of the late 1980s and 1990s.

At the height of his career in the late 1980s, Chase earned around $7 million per film and was a highly visible celebrity.

Beginning in the late 1980s, however, there was a tentative shift to a more open policy toward religion in Tibet.

The North Korean attack is seen as the worst against Seoul since the bombing of a Korean Airlines jetliner in the late 1980s.

At the moment, China's rise looks just as unstoppable as Japan's did in the late 1980s.

The Olympics did not become a major turning point for fast industrializing Korea in the late 1980s either.

Since the late 1980s, the citizen sector has taken off and experienced rapid growth in terms of productivity and impact.

Varroa mites have been causing serious problems in bee colonies in the United States since the late 1980s.

There he was in charge of privatisation and managing the public debt, which had exploded in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

Barack met his wife in the late 1980s, when the two worked at the prestigious Chicago law firm Sidley &Austin.

Taiwanese have been allowed to travel to China since the late 1980s.

Yet it was his late father Andreas, a spendthrift Pasok premier, who sowed the seeds of Greece's crisis with a borrowing spree in the 1980s.

But the true solution was no less mortal a threat to the Soviets in the late 1980s than it had been in 1970.

The early years of glasnost in the late 1980s had little effect on the political climate in the Kyrgyz Republic.

By the time Mikhail Gorbachev initiated perestroika and glasnost in the late 1980s, the Soviet Union was all but bust.

Varroa mites have been causing serious problems in beecolonycolonies in the United States since the late 1980s.

By the late 1980s, however, contradictory results began to challenge this neat linear view.

When Kishore joined in the late 1980s, video was displacing cinema and he suggested to his father that Eros move into the new medium.

It was therefore quite distressing when, in the late 1980s and 1990s, hundreds of headless walrus began to wash up ashore in Alaska.

This dispute has rumbled on since the late 1980s, when Airbus first started to weaken America's dominance of the commercial aircraft market.

The first pocket-size computer he bought back in the late 1980s was a diminutive DOS machine made by Sharp of Japan.

The Chinese who have come to Prato, Italy, since the late 1980s have transformed the city and its centuries-old textile industry.

In the late 1980s, Andrew Malcolm wrote that all 50 states were spending several hundred million dollars a year to promote tourism.

In the late 1980s, researchers began to adopt the mode of physical mechanism to evaluate climate change.

In the late 1980s, consumer fireworks became the focus of intense scrutiny by the U. S. Consumer Product Safety Commission.

In the late 1980s, hip hop spread across the world, to Japan, India and many parts of Europe, especially France, Belgium and Italy.

While the rest of his countrymen were engaged daily in those tumultuous events of the late 1980s, Putin was stationed abroad, in Dresden.

He has been thinking about this new book since the late 1980s, when the first heart scans were developed.

Some reports suggested that the missile might be the DF-25, a conventionally-armed MRBM developed in the late 1980s for export.

Constructivism, which has a great influence on the practice of education, has been prevailing since the late 1980s.

The last great art craze of the late 1980s is a reminder of Asia's potential as a consumer of all things artistic.

During the Perestroika reforms of the late 1980s, Georgia developed a multiparty system that strongly favoured independence.

The semiconductor industry started to use nitrogen trifluoride as a greener alternative for cleaning chipmaking equipment in the late 1980s.

They are not on a deceleration threshold like that of western Europe in 1970 or that of Japan in the late 1980s.

In the late 1980s, he noticed the red berries at Chinese banquets and was told they were extremely healthful.

It means borrowers and lenders are being more prudent than they were during the late 1980s crash, leaving them less exposed if prices fall.

I invented much of the underlying technology of Microsoft's software development tool and sold it to Bill Gates in the late 1980s.

These artists are still creating work, but it's their early works created between the late 1980s and the early 1990s that collectors want.

I was in Europe in the late 1980s soliciting the co-operation of an Arab businessman, who was related to his country's president.

Indeed, some analysts have drawn parallels between the Shanghai market today and "bubble" Japan of the late 1980s.

In the late 1980s, however, the rate began to fall.

China started along this path in the late 1970s, while India began to throw off its socialist traditions in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

The spending spree began in the late 1980s, when China embarked on an ambitious programme to upgrade its armed forces.

Chinese laborers, first a few immigrants, then tens of thousands, began settling in Prato in the late 1980s.

When Ireland faced an economic crisis in the late 1980s, there was cross-party agreement on a reform strategy.

If you had bought a Rolex Daytona with the exotic "Paul Newman" dial in the late 1980s you can congratulate yourself on a sound investment.

The bubble certainly was a late-1980s phenomenon and doubtless its implosion led, in turn, to Japan's deflation.

Instead, we should be pretty content to see the rate return to its late-1980s through late-1990s level of around 64%.

When the single market was built in the late 1980s, the EU already had an exchange-rate mechanism (ERM) limiting currency movements.

Its last major upgrade was in the late 1980s before the breakup of the Soviet Union, a longtime sponsor of its military.

During the boom under UK finance minister Nigel Lawson in the late 1980s, I advocated domestic credit controls for the UK.

That plant was built in the late 1980s by a very small southern utility, the Alabama Electric Cooperative.

In the late 1980s specialists -- Microsoft in software, Cisco in networking equipment -- dominated business computing.

In late 1980s, the contract nurses entered barrack; and became the main force of the nursing team in the hospital.

The drones went into service in the late 1980s, and this one was used in the 1991 Gulf War.

Wines from the late 1980s and early 1990s, for instance, are primed to rise in value because they're ready to drink now.

When emerging economies borrowed in the late 1970s, to finance oil imports, they finished up with a massive debt crisis in the 1980s.

Until the late 1980s they too were dictatorships. Their regimes, facing rising dissent, saw the writing on the wall and democratised.

A lot of buildings and fly-overs in the city, built in a great hurry in the late 1980s and early 1990s, collapsed during the earthquake.

Since the late 1980s, the world has been moving toward a extraordinary degree of political stability.

However, the development of the YJ-1 had encountered serious technical problems and the project was eventually given up in the late 1980s.

Its labour market is much more flexible than in the late 1980s, when most workers were in the state sector.

Mr. Zhang, a graduate of the elite Beijing Film Academy, burst onto the international scene in the late 1980s on the film-festival circuit.

She is also famous for her close friendship to Madonna during the late 1980s.

DURING the late 1980s and early 1990s the conflict between Armenians and Azeris over the Nagorno-Karabkh region was often in the news.

Similar fixes certainly didn't work for Japan in the late 1980s, and haven't worked for the United States in recent years.

In real terms, wealth has increased by more than a third since the late 1980s.

By the late 1980s, a suitable standard candle had been indentified: type Ia supernovae.

By the time the Soviet empire imploded in the late 1980s, the answer was obvious.

The Japanese boom and bust of the late 1980s was also a manifestation of the Austrian cycle.

Small studies in France and Germany in the late 1980s showed that Oscillococcinum helped flu sufferers recover faster than placebos.

Saddam Hussein still faces prosecution for the killings of Kurdish civilians, many with poison gas, in the late 1980s.

In the late 1980s, strong Japanese demand helped support art prices for two years after the October 1987 stock market crash.

He has been heavily involved in the fight against AIDS since the late 1980s and was knighted in 1998.

Costa Rica, which in the late 1980s lost around 4% of its forest each year, has reduced its deforestation almost to zero.

From 1970 to the late 1980s the Cold War, a strategic study of the re-development period.

This system was pioneered by the defence ministry in the late 1980s but faces bureaucratic resistance.

Instead, analysts estimate that the space industry has grown by only 25 percent since the late 1970s and early 1980s.

Starting from textile trade and he entered into real estate circle at the late 1980s.

Contaminated hemophilia blood products were a serious public heath problem in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

Instead, what Japan gave the world in the late 1980s was a lesson in how tricky it is to rebalance economies.

The forlorn bid to ban agents was introduced by the late Rajiv Gandhi, a Congress prime minister in the mid-1980s.

The Greek government is obliged to issue zero coupon bonds as collateral for its new bonds, as Latin countries did in the late 1980s.

Japan experienced a huge boom in the prices of both stocks and real estate in the late 1980s, then saw both bubbles burst.

By the late 1980s recycling programs were established in many communities.

In the late 1980s, the Batman's nemesis, the Joker, acquired a nuclear weapon and sold it to Arab terrorists.

The official economic reforms undertaken in China in the late 1970s and early 1980s have had an extraordinary impact.

He had worked at the station since the late 1980s and had witnessed the industry's transformation.

Democracy will not cure all Pakistan's ills: the democratic decade from the late 1980s was ruinous.

Indeed, the same people who were running all of the major gangs in the late 1980s are still running the major gangs in Chicago today.

Most had big private-equity operations for a brief period in the late 1980s.

The Palestinian intifada of the late 1980s also ended in a draw of sorts.

Since the late 1980s, the number of science and engineering doctorates awarded in China has exploded.

In the late 1980s, landless and increasingly desperate Arabs began banding together to wrest their own dar from the black farmers.

I was very shocked that in the late 1980s, very few people were interested in her.

The coach also inspired Mr Amelio to visit Japan, in the late 1980s, and then China, sparking a continuing interest in Asia.

Predictions that Japan would over-take the US, popular in the late 1980s, were always implausible.

When deaf people began getting cochlear implants in the late 1980s, many in the deaf community felt betrayed.

Hyundai's reputation in North America was sullied in the late 1980s by models that sacrificed quality for price.

It reminded me of the conditions in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

But the trading community didn't accept technical analysis as a viable tool for making money until the late 1970s or early 1980s.

By the late 1980s further changes occurred in the operating environment.

Chinese share prices are nowhere near as giddy as Japan's were in the late 1980s.

It opened its first overseas office in Kuwait in the late 1970s and came to the U. S. in the 1980s.

Dr. Kuczaj developed an early two-way communication system while working at a captive lab in Orlando in the late 1980s.

BASF was mining coal until the late 1980s, and today even that might again make sense.

In the late 1980s Japan also appeared a lot of research direction of symbols of books.

By the late 1980s, Alex had learned the names of more than 50 different objects, five shapes, and seven colors.

Production of the Type 59 began in the late 1950s and probably continued into the early 1980s.

By the late 1980s many new participants had entered risk arbitrage.

Western countries' stockpiling did the same in the late 1970s and early 1980s, contributing to push up consumption and prices.

During the first reform in the late 1970s and early 1980s, Deng advocated the policy of getting some people rich first.

That changed after an equal-employment opportunity law was enacted in the late 1980s.

A depressed and indebted country in the late 1980s suddenly became the bubbly Celtic Tiger of the 1990s.

Not emerging markets, he says, but lending on property in Switzerland in the late 1980s.

Another hurdle for the stock market has been the decline in dividends that began in the late 1980s.

The billowy style re-emerged with M. C. Hammer in the club scene of the late 1980s.

But it is reminiscent of Taiwan's boom and bust stock market of the late 1980s.

Such talk is reminiscent of Japan's economic heyday in the late 1980s and early 1990s, when Sony snapped up Columbia studios.

In the late 1980s Japanese firms raced after foreign real estate, and in the late 1990s they piled into technology companies (see chart).

She is best known for her work in Latin America, documenting insurrection and human rights issues in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

Even in the late 1970s and early 1980s, the sight of policemen chasing and confiscating a rural peddler's goods was common.

Sun City also became the site of several important Heavyweightboxing matches during the late 1970s and early 1980s.

The past few years rivalled the champagne days of the late 1980s. Equity prices surged.

It was this kind of scare that took hold in the late 1980s.

The QLZ87 (also known as Type 87) is the 35mm automatic grenade launcher developed by NORINCO in the late 1980s.

After all, Japan let its government debt soar in the decades after its late-1980s bubble from under 20% to more than 90%.

With the all-around revolution of politics and economy during the late half of 1980s in China, Chinese culture has taken place new changes.

The late 1980s, with the popularity of uniprocessor personal computer systems such as the IBM PC, saw a decline in multiprocessing systems.

The modernity-oriented transformation of Jia Pingwa's local narratives has been finished since late 1980s.

Reported cases of people ill with hepatitis C hae dropped steadily since peaking in the late 1980s.

That dominance has survived dollar slides before, as in the late 1970s and mid-1980s.

In the late 1980s and early '90s, the Coda file system premiered a different cache manager: Venus.

A case in point is the US Savings and Loans crisis of the late 1980s and early 1990s.

Even as the Communist system collapsed in the late 1980s, the Communist Party had 800, 000 members.

The hey day of the open system movement of the late 1980s and early 1990s has passed.

In the late 1980s, he helped run junk-bond trading at Goldman Sachs.

The World Bank's estimates based on summary data from the late 1980s probably overstated China's PPP gross domestic product even then.

At its commercial peak, in the late 1980s and early 1990s, the music video simply gushed cash.

After a spate of executions of innocent people in the late 1980s, pressure mounted to bring civilians back into the courtroom.

In late 1980s, Nie worked as senior teacher in china musical academy teaching classical guitar, and cultivated droves of guitar players.

Since late 1980s, infrared thermography has been becoming a more and more powerful technique for NDT and nondestructive evaluation (NDE).

The late 1980s were an unsettling period for China.

Money poured into the island in the late 1980s.

The work was done in the early 1980s, and the first patent on that work expired late in 2004.

Finally, he and Magic revived the NBB with their legendary rivalry in the 1980s after the league's popularity dropped in the late '70s.

In the late 1980s, Russian oil production reached a peak of production of 12. 5 million barrels of production per day.

In fact in some ways, China is a less plausible rival to the US than Japan was in the late 1980s.

Mr Zong, who is now a delegate to the National People's Congress, founded Wahaha in the late 1980s selling milk products at a school store.

by the late 1980s , generations one and two gave way to the prevailing " gen 3 " products.

The US also did a decent job along these lines, Beim says, when many banks failed in the late 1980s and early '90s.

Some specific regions had suffered downturns: prices in Texas, for example, fell during the Savings and Loans debacle of the late 1980s.

After a binge in the late 1980s and early 1990s, Japanese firms retrenched.

Many of the trend-following models were developed in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

So did a lot of traditional Republicans, including many of the governors I'd served with in the late 1970s and 1980s.

Even at the credit-bubble peaks in the late 1980s and 2005-06, it was only around 45%.

In the late 1980s, grains from the people's food gradually fade table, XiLiang become table, and supporting became a meal.

This is to forget how awesome the Japan story was in the late 1980s.

The program was started in the late 1980s and the first models flew in 1996.

The study on military psychology in China, though it has started quite late, enjoyed a fast development in the middle of 1980s.

The level of untreated decay was the highest since the late 1980s and significantly higher than that found in a survey from 1999 to 2002.

The term "cultural literacy" became a buzz word in the field of education in the late 1980s.

Karaoke became popular in Japan among businessmen in the late 1970s, and gained widespread popularity in the U. S. in the late 1980s.

As in Japan in the late 1980s, countless Chinese companies have borrowed to dabble in real estate.

Hot money inflows first contributed to land- and stock-market bubbles in Japan in the late 1980s.

Shi applied to study abroad, as many talented students did in China in the late 1980s.

At the late 1980s, the society of China was in an era of waiting for deeper system reformation.

Changes in the Economic Position of Cambodian Ethnic Chinese since the Late 1980s